Quote ="DaveO"Is that how it has been put forward? I couldn't find any information about what happened after it went 8x8x8 and how many teams would be in the play offs.'"
Just like a lot of other info, they never explicitly stated what the playoff structure would be; but there will be a GF somehow, and no chance of it being a top 8 playoff. I can see it being anywhere from Top 2 to 5 though.
Quote ="DaveO"Whatever system is adopted the money issue hasn't gone away. With 24 teams in the 2-> 3 league do the top 12 get all the Sky money and pay to the current salary cap level and the bottom 12 work to the same financial constraints as the Championship?
Would any team who finished in the last 4 out of the top 12 who didn't retain their place the season after be faced with all their players becoming free agents? If a couple of teams failed to retain their places that is over 50 players who would be in effect unemployed!'"
Whereas these are perfectly valid problems that I really can't see them being able to handle with current resources. RL does not have enough players, or continuously distributed playing strengths (aka there's a massive drop off in quality below SL) for squads to move up and down divisions. Even if these players did become free agents, they almost certainly wouldn't leave SL, they'd just have to move to the promoted clubs to the expense of the lower 2/3 of their squad.
